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...ectronic Classics Series Publication Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen... ...thly combed wig, gave him a look of mystery. His eyes seemed shrouded in a transparent film; you would have compared them to dingy mother-of-pearl wit... ... a handsome young fel- low, none of my misfortunes would have befallen me. Women believe in men when they flavor their speeches with the word Love. Th... ...d it; it was written in German. “Boucard, go yourself and have this letter translated, and bring it back immediately,” said Derville, half opening his... ...strings fastened to poles. The placid horse, of a breed known only to milk-women, had gone a few steps from the cart, and was standing in front of the... ...those old frag- ments of carpet, picked up heaven knows where, which milk- women use to cover the seats of their carts. The floor was simply the trodd... ... a trooper’s three theological 30 Colonel Chabert virtues—play, wine, and women!” “T o be sure, monsieur, we are not distinguished for luxury here. I... ... you will find yourself in Charenton.” At this terrible name the soldier’s transports collapsed. “ And will there be no hope for me at the Ministry of...

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... material con- tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylva... ...ire as other men think of the soft lines 5 H G Wells and tender beauty of women. Thousands of men there are to-day almost mastered by this white pass... ...ween my world and Machiavelli’s. We are discovering 8 The New Machiavelli women. It is as if they had come across a vast interval since his time, int... ...orthy men to toil, and wasted the hours of Princes. He left the thought of women outside with his other dusty things when he went into his study to wr... ...ened with its sense of the immense, now half ar- ticulate, significance of women. They stand now, as it were, close beside the silver candlesticks, sp... ...ht me early. And in the retrospect I see them all not only mag- nified and transfigured, but fore-shortened and confused to- gether. A clockwork railw... ... ence teaching and the earning of government grants therefor with great if transitory zeal and success. I do not remember anything of my father’s earl... ...person- 42 The New Machiavelli ally, one of those things that nothing can transfigure, that re- main sorrowful, that I cannot soothe with any explana... ...walking-sticks, sunshades or cigarettes, and come valiantly into the vague trans- figuring mingling of gaslight and evening, to walk up and down, to e...

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... mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virginibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Lou... ...thing that Don Quixote was a bachelor and Marcus Aurelius married ill. For women, there is less of this danger. Marriage is of so much use to a woman,... ...enefit. It is true, however, that some of the merriest and most genuine of women are old maids; and that those old maids, and 7 Virginibus Puerisque ... ...ten most of the true motherly touch. And this would seem to show, even for women, some narrowing influence in comfortable mar- ried life. But the rule... ...fe. But the rule is none the less certain: if you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife. I am often filled with wonder ... ...ts to George Eliot for her Rosamond Vincy; the ugly work of satire she has trans- muted to the ends of art, by the companion figure of Lydgate; and th... ...own person become so many acts of devotion, and the love of life itself is translated into a wish to remain in the same world with so precious and des... ...gher authority, for they are the di- rect expression of the heart, not yet transmitted through the unfaithful and sophisticating brain. Not long ago I... ... wonderful glory of fairy gold, which the first great winds of winter will trans- mute, as in the fable, into withered leaves. And so too he can enjoy...

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...Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ... mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Christ in Flanders by Honoré de Balzac, trans. El... ...felt cold as if it were a winter day, and I became aware of a multitude of women, robed in white, silent, and impassive, sitting there. The sweet ince... ...ss the pillars, lending to them an indescribable charm. Then some graceful women’s forms began to stir on the 16 Christ in Flanders friezes. The cher...

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...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsy... ...try had anything like our treasures to defend? countless riches, beautiful women, an inviolate soil! T rue, and it must be done. Ministers were author... ...ddressed a body of midshipmen just a little loftily. But the English, when translated, was bald and blunt to the verge of offensiveness. ‘Gentlemen of... ...mp nodded. She left him hard at work. He was a popular boy, a favourite of women, and therefore full of engagements to Balls and dinners. And he was a... ...e whole, it seems complete) of the animal world. By-and-by the struggle is transferred to higher ground, and we begin to perceive how much we are inde... ...rers! He decried the attractions of the sublimer House, and laughed at the trans- parent Whiggery of his party in replenishing it from the upper shoot... ...ed a bone in his mouth; and it was natural wisdom, though unappreciated by women. A bone in a boy’s mind for him to gnaw and worry, corrects the vagra... ...cousins were bedevilled with womanfolk. From which Rosamund perceived that women had been at work; and if so, it was upon the business of the scandal-... ...uffered, not he at all. The letter had served its ob- ject: ever since the transmission of it the menaces and insults had ceased. But they might be re...

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...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six thro... ...is as tender as it is refreshing. About a question of marriage I have seen women who hate each other kiss and cry together quite fondly. How much more... ...melia in her most interesting situation. While these delicacies were being transacted below, Amelia, leaving the drawing-room, walked upstairs and fou... ...day, George had more important “business” to 8 V anity Fair – V olume Two transact than that which took him to see Mr. Kean in Shylock. Immediately o... ... quite impossible to describe in print. But who has not beheld these among women, and recognised the presence of all sorts of qualities in them, even ... ...uarters. He could hear the cheering from the ships in the river, where the transports were already taking in their cargoes preparatory to dropping dow... ... Amelia Invades the Low Countries THE REGIMENT WITH ITS OFFICERS was to be transported in ships provided by His Majesty’s government for the occasion:... ...me better regiment soon, and to get his wife away from those damned vulgar women. But this vulgarity of being ashamed of one’s society is much more co... ...arity of being ashamed of one’s society is much more common among men than women (except very great ladies of fashion, who, to be sure, indulge in it)...

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...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne , ... ...have you a literary turn, Mr. Moodie? or have you taken up the advocacy of women’s rights? or what else can have interested you in this lady? Zenobia,... ...e, in short, like the white drapery of the Veiled Lady, only a little more transparent. But it is late. Will you tell me what I can do for you?” “Plea... ...d, contrasting it with my coal grate, I felt so much the more that we had transported our selves a world wide distance from the system of society th... ... hearty welcome. At her back—a back of generous breadth—appeared two young women, smiling most hospitably, but looking rather awk ward withal, as not... ... sparkled among her hair. Her hand, though very soft, was larger than most women would like to have, or than they could afford to have, though not a w... ...lectable to hear, but not in the least like an ordinary woman’s laugh,—”we women (there are four of us here already) will take the domestic and indoor... ...erable other ideas go and come, and flutter to and fro, combining constant transition with intolerable sameness. Had I made a 29 Hawthorne record of ... ..., in the pulpit), that such an one is decidedly marked out by the light of transfigura tion, shed upon him in the divine interview from which he pass...

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...cs Series Publication Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balza... ...nsmission, in any way. Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...of finding names already dear to your old Italian romancers among those of women whom we love, and to whose memory I would beg you to recall your sinc... ...ret of this behavior, now dilatory and again hurried, is known only to old women and to certain experi- enced loungers. In this immense assembly the c... ... Among this strangely mingled party were some men with whom Lucien had had transactions, combining ostensibly kind offices with covert false dealing. ... ...ould have changed him, if indeed such a nature were susceptible of change. Women who have lived the life that Esther had so vio- lently repudiated com... ... vice and think of the future. You would no more be able to break with the women of your own class than you have broken with the men who shamed you at... ...young girls, was that her hands, incomparably fine in shape, were as soft, trans- parent, and white as those of a woman after the birth of her second ...

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...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Kath... ...ough far from sanctimonious, she had no other education than that given to women by the Church. Judged, by ordinary standards, she was an accomplished... ...yday she had been popularly called a beauty, and was now one of those rare women whom time respects. She owed to her excellent constitution the privil... ...der the fable of the Danaides and their cask? Madame Descoings, like other women who are lucky enough to keep young for many years, spend rather too m... ... dress; but aside from these trifling de- fects she was the pleasantest of women to live with. Of every one’s opinion, never opposing anybody, her kin... ...to these dens they enter rapins, but they may come forth prix de Rome. The transformation does not take place without extraordinary uproar and dis- tu... ...ess and personal charm. Some human beings obtain through love the power of transferring their self— their I—to the being of another; and when death ta... ...hares in the Funds, repre- senting thirteen hundred francs’ interest, were transferred as security for Philippe, who was then appointed cashier. That ...

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...A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katha... ...y several others, more especially those relating to the different modes of trans- portation in use around Paris. Therefore the persons and things whic... ..., father and son, had acquired 4 A Start in Life a monopoly of travel and transportation to all the populous towns within a radius of forty-five mile... ...e never willingly mingled with the lesser bourgeoisie, he always respected women in whatever station of life they belonged. Nevertheless, by dint of “... ...e coach, it made both ingress and egress extremely perilous, especially to women. Though each seat of this vehicle, with rounded sides like those of a... ...at a harem is much of a thing; you might as well have a herd of goats. The women are horribly stupid down there; I much prefer the grisettes of the Ch... ...es at Mont-Parnasse.” “They are nearer, at any rate,” said the count. “The women of the harem couldn’t speak a word of French, and that language is in...

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...nto the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once at the expense of a self-styled connoisseur....

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...ectronic Classics Series Publication Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara... ...iculties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which pro- cure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of lau... ...n inaccurate amanuensis. If this were the case, I should be the traitorous translator without knowing it, and I yet hope to sign myself always one of ... ...ce shawl. But the thing which no one could ever understand in Paris, where women are sheathed in their dresses as a dragon-fly is cased in its annular... ...es obtain from his beloved a promise that led her to the edge of what many women call “the gulf,” and thus found himself obliged to be satisfied with ... ...e Prince saw one of those figures in which nobody be- lieves when they are transferred from real life, where we won- der at them, to the imaginary exi... ..., and she had that air of native majesty that is characteristic of Italian women. La Tinti—whose name also resembled that which the French singer assu... ...ons of a lively imagination, in which after arriving in a ballroom full of women in full dress, the dreamer is suddenly aware that he is naked, withou...

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...tor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the... ... a mighty fine ship,’ said he, ‘to have no money on board!’ I own I was inspired with sensible repugnance; even with alarm. The ship was mani- festly ... ...sh; and it was in English that the crew of the Janet Nicoll, a set of black boys from different Melanesian islands, com- municated with other natives ... ...epeating mirrors of the tiny cabin, brought us a hundred visitors. The men fathomed out her dimensions with their arms, as their fathers fathomed out ... ...in- 10 In The South Seas ment; and, as in European parlours, the photograph album went the round. This sober gallery, their everyday costumes and phy... ...ad enjoyed in my youth some knowledge of our Scots folk of the High- lands and the Islands. Not much beyond a century has passed since these were in t... ...tch; and I think we may go beyond, and say, that if such a population could be isolated, and this mispronunciation should become the rule, it might pr... ...the cooked bread- fruit fills the air, and perhaps the lamp glints already be- tween the pillars and the house, you shall behold them si- lently assem... ...der the palms, where the blue shadow lingered, the red coals of cocoa husk and the light trails of smoke betrayed the awakening business of the day; a...

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...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kim by Rudyard Kipling , the Pennsylvania State U... ... gullies and lanes, the crawl up a waterpipe, the sights and sounds of the women’s world on the flat roofs, and the headlong flight from housetop to h... ...orkmen whose hands were feeling, and not unskilfully, for the mysteriously transmitted Grecian touch. There were hundreds of pieces, friezes of figure... ...grims, Fu Hiouen and Hwen Tsiang, and was anxious to know if there was any translation of their record. He drew in his breath as he turned helplessly ... ...Horse is Ara bian as already advised. Sorrowful delayed pedigree which am translating.’ And later to the same address: ‘Much sor rowful delay. Will ... ... is no more than a pig of an Afghan horse dealer, with no thought ex cept women and horses. Moreover, he may have sent it away by now–if ever there w... ...ter and sweetmeat vendors, shouts of native policemen, and shrill yells of women gathering up their baskets, their families, and their husbands. ‘It i... ... times.’ ‘Ay, by ten thousand tongues,’ grunted he. ‘The Gods help us poor women if we may not speak. Oho! He is of that sort which may not look at or... ...t. Call out such guns.”’ The old man rose stiffly and saluted. ‘“For”’–Kim translated into the vernacular the clinching sentences he had heard in the ...

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....C. by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius (“Apollonius the Rhodian”). Translation by R.C. Seaton, 1912. The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, t... ... material contained within the document or for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, translatio... ...C. by the Alexandrian poet Apollonius Rhodius (“Apollonius the Rhodian”). Translation by R.C. Seaton, 1912. INTRODUCTION Much has been written about ... ...t of all in his “Ibis”, of which we have an imitation, or perhaps nearly a translation, in Ovid’s poem of the same name. On the part of Apollonius the... ...n dria was a useful bridge between Athens and Rome. The “Argonautica” was translated by Varro Atacinus, copied by Ovid and Virgil, and minutely studi... ...l. 247 250) Thus they spake here and there through out the city; but the women often raised their hands to the sky in prayer to the immortals to gra... ...o Alcimede sorrows and countless pains hereafter.” (ll. 261 277) Thus the women spake at the departure of the heroes. And now many thralls, men and w... ... for thy nurture have I long enjoyed. Now I, once so admired among Achaean women, shall be left behind like a bondwoman in my empty halls, pin ing aw... ...ple together had been ruthlessly slain through the trans gressions of the women in the year gone by. For the men had rejected their lawful wives, loa...

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...HADJI MURAD by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy First Published in 1904 Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ... STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (original published in 1904) is a publicatio... ...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Hadji Murad by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Ayl... ... 3 Tolstoy HADJI MURAD by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy First Published in 1904 Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude CHAPTER I I was returning home by t... ...could be clearly heard the guttural voices of disputing men, and sounds of women’ s and children’ s voices rising from near the fountain below . Th... ...an coat, but let his hand drop immediately and became silent on seeing two women enter the saklya. One was Sado’ s wife—the thin middle-aged woman ... ...n, a ewer, and a towel. Sado and Hadji Murad kept silent as long as the women, with their coin ornaments tinkling, moved softly about in their red ... ...as a statue, his ram-like eyes fixed on his crossed legs, all the time the women were in the saklya. Only after they had gone and their soft footsteps... ... said something in Tartar and 31 Tolstoy stopped. The Chechen interpreter translated. “He says, ‘I surrender myself to the will of the Rus- sian T...

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Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham, the Pe... ...nso, and if he forebore to re- turn a borrowed half-crown no detail of the trans- action will be omitted. Chapter II WHEN SO MUCH has been written abo... ... to the clever things they said. I have a recollection of large, unbending women with great noses and rapacious eyes, who wore their clothes as though... ... He’s not in the least interested in literature or the arts.” “Why do nice women marry dull men?” “Because intelligent men won’t marry nice women.” I ... ... I had been invited. The re- spectability of the party was portentous. The women were too nice to be well dressed, and too sure of their position to b... ... I fancied there was towards the end a look of fatigue in the faces of the women on either side of him. They were finding him heavy . Once or twice Mr... ...ehensible to him, and she had half a dozen phrases of English. She made me trans- late what she could only express in her own tongue, and eagerly aske... ...ve in Strickland. She made no secret of her desires, and I was bid- den to translate. “She wants you to go home with her. ” “I’m not taking any ,” he ... ...ck of money . “But I like him,” she said. “Tell him it’s for love.” When I translated this, Strickland shrugged his shoulders impatiently . “ Tell her...

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...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Da... ...ame up with them; and took them all in, being no less than sixty-four men, women, and children; for there were a great many passengers. Upon inquiry w... ...man shed tears, in spite of the firmest resolution, to have seen the first transports of this poor fellow’ s joy when he came to his father: how he em... ...everal roots and some dried fish, and appeared very sociable; and that the women, as well as the men, were very forward to supply them with anything t... ..., used to eat men; but, as for themselves, they said they never ate men or women, except only such as they took in the wars; and then they owned they ... ...ing some for them; and accordingly the next morning they brought down five women and eleven men, and gave them to the Englishmen to carry with them on... ...th for pre- serving people that he had no knowledge of or relation to from transgressing the laws of God. But recollecting what he had said of marryin... ...or them to do, we would have used as such, or would have been glad to have transported them to any part of the world; for our business was to get rid ... ...his handkerchief and wipe her eyes, and then kiss her again with a kind of transport very unusual; and after several of these things, we saw him on a ...

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...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad, the... ...tile, most likely. Little Fyne held very solemn views as to the destiny of women on this earth, the nature of our sublunary love, the obligations of t... ...n on this earth, the nature of our sublunary love, the obligations of this transient life and so on. He probably dis- closed them to his future wife. ... ...daughter (the elder of the two children) either from compassion or because women are naturally more enduring, remained in bondage to the poet for seve... ... before 37 Joseph Conrad the hosts of heaven, on a shadowy earth, about a transient, phan- tom-like girl, seemed too ridiculous to associate with. On... ...e was always like that; even in the very hour of elopement with Fyne. That transaction when one remembered it in her presence acquired a quaintly marv... ...ggar. But there is enough of the woman in my nature to free my judgment of women from glamorous reticency. And then, why should I upset my- self? A wo... ...xist- ence without considering anyone’s feelings or convenience since some women’s existences were made impossible by the short- sighted baseness of m... ...t conscience- less and austere doctrine to the girl-friends, who were mere transient shadows to her husband, I could not tell. Any length I supposed. ...

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...The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...Classics Series Publication The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. ... ...he material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Commission in Lunacy by Honoré de Balzac, tra... ... know a woman’s age, look at her temples and the tip of her nose. Whatever women may achieve with their cosmetics, they can do noth- ing against those... ... should become the physician of their best friends. “My dear fellow, those women of whom you say, ‘They are angels!’ I—I—have seen stripped of the lit... ...he fool with 7 Balzac you, my dear fellow?—I accept your diatribe against women of fashion; but you are beside the mark. I should always pre- fer for... ...atti- tude, and is worth all the unbridled tenderness of your middle-class women with their mortgaged devotion; for, in love, devotion is nearly akin ... ...the revenues of Purgatory, not one of all these powers would induce him to transfer a single straw from one saucer of his scales into the other. He is... ...s and his compassionate soul to the public good, and allowed himself to be transported to the noisome pools of criminal examinations, where he showed ...